Houston Nutt is no longer the coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks. He resigned Monday following a tumultuous career as the head man of the former Southwest Conference team.

Obviously the “resignation” was more than likely provked by calls for his firing over the past several seasons, and even though Arkansas Chancellor John A. White tried to cover himself by saying that the resignation was “neither forced, or encouraged, or requested,” it is realistic to assume that he applied some pressure as well.

Nutt cited that he wanted to unify the state by stepping down, although I don’t know how a coach stepping down that half the state likes and the other half doesn’t will help to unify anything, but such is life.

“Deep, deep down in my heart as an Arkansan, as person who loves the Razorbacks so much, (I wanted) for the state to come together as one,” Nutt said. “At this time, I didn’t think we could have one heartbeat.”

You know, I never actually realized what someone from Arkansas called themselves. Apparently this term is “Arkansan,” although I would have guessed something to the effect of “Arkansassy-man” (sounds more catchy, don’t you think?).

I personally always liked Coach Nutt because you never knew what kind of crap he might pull on a team with his game plan. If he wanted to run the same play every single down with Darren McFadden just running it up the gut for 60 minutes straight, I don’t think it really would have surprised anyone. He also held the ability to freak out anyone on the field with his um, enthusiasm-turned-violent rage/brink of sanity. What a great dude to have on your sidelines.

Well, we leave you with this clever (but not even close to Orgeron’s) video.

If Ole Miss were smart, they’d snatch him up right now, because having Nutt would guarantee at least one conference win against Arkansas every year, which is exactly 1 more than they won this year.

Ole Miss Sucks.

One team won a Championship, and another lost one. Sure, one was the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division Championship and the other was the StubHub! Legends Classic Championship, but you still want to try to win them all.

Pearl’s BasketVols were plagued by poor shooting as well as running into a Texas team that was getting just about every roll and bounce going their way, avenging their loss to the Vols the last couple of years. The commentators noted during the game, and I tend to agree, that it is becoming one of the more fun out of conference rivalries.

I personally think it’d be fun if the football teams got together annually as well, and hope it happens at some point. In the meantime, the football team will be playing Oklahoma in a few years for a home and home, and that should be fun to watch as well.

The early BasketVols loss comes at a time where hopefully some lessons can be learned from playing against quality competition without having too many repercussions with regard to how the season as a whole might pan out. Bruce will no doubt use this game as a motivational tactic for the rest of the season, and it’s possible that these two teams could meet again.

On the other side of the token, Fulmer and the FootVols played in one of the many exciting games of the Thanksgiving weekend, going through four overtimes to knock off the Wildcats of Kentucky.

It was a fun weekend no doubt, and we here at Fulmer’s Belly hope that everyone had a great weekend with lots of turkey, and lots of punching middle aged ladies in the face shopping. We also hope that everyone was safe this weekend, and let’s look forward to an exciting month of sports!

Ohio State Sucks

Oftentimes, people have bad things to say about referees during football games. Generally, it’s because fans feel as if they might have missed a call against their team, or even worse, called a call against their team that seemingly didn’t happen. But they try their best, and generally speaking, do what they can to make sure they get calls right.

Really though, it’s up to the players to try to play a clean game and not get flagged for any kind of penalty. Now, it’s one thing to get a personal foul for unsportsmanlike conduct, unnecessary roughness or even a late hit out of bounds. But for all that is holy and good in this world.. Never… EEEEEEEEEVER (Chris Jericho reference anyone?) be flagged for a personal foul for… well… take a look:

Hmm, I take back everything I ever said bad about them; the ACC, and particularly Ron Cherry, kick so much ass.

“America’s Team,” your Tennessee Volunteers held off the forces of well, not evil, but Blue, and were able to overcome the bungling of a huge lead, about 200 drops by the Tennessee receivers, a farking interception in the seconfd overtime period, a personal foul that carried over (where apparently a facemask doesn’t) in the fourth overtime, and a spectacular

showing by Andre Woodson and the Kentucky Wildcats to punch their tickets to Atlanta to

face LSU for the SEC Championship.

Tennessee is the 2007 SEC Eastern Division Champion (eat that Gators), tied with Georgia, but owning the tiebreaker against the Bulldogs courtesy of a butt-whuppin’ in Knoxville earlier in the season. Fulmer has a chance to smack all of his critics in the mouth when he goes to Atlanta next week to try to beat an LSU team that sort of has lost the will to go on.

The Tennessee/Kentucky game quite possibly helped out Darren McFadden’s Heisman chances due to the fact that Tebow’s first 3 touchdowns were not broadcast, whereas all of McFadden’s were. Did anyone else notice that it seemed like Verne and Gary were kind of annoyed that they were preempted for most of the first half? Later in the half, there was also a play that no one even thought twice about, where a girl in the flag corps got nailed by a Tebow throwaway pass late in the first half. Tim Tebow, why do you hate girls? And America? And organized high schools? Too good for all of those things?

Thanks alot Tebow, no milk for my babies!

Speaking of DMac, action kicked off on Thursday with another run of the mill SEC game with the #1 team in the nation falling to an unranked Darren McFadden Razorback (no, it was right the first time) Darren McFadden team.

Then, you had a Hawai’i team knock off last year’s BCS darlings, Boise State, improving the Warriors’ strength of schedule from pretty much dead last in the NCAA to um, almost last in the NCAA? Yeah, really deserve to be in a big bowl there guys. Maybe if the Hawaiian warrior dude was playing… That’d be fun to watch.

Oh yeah, and something about Missouri and West Virginia.

With the new rankings, it would seem that there is an outside chance that Georgia could backdoor their way (a bulldog’s favorite position btw) into the National Championship game. You know, by virtue of not winning the SEC Title and all that stuff. Even Lou Holtz said it: “Take the C out of the BCS, and that’s what it really is.”

ACC Sucks

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It’s that time of year, for feasting, gluttony, sleeping early, shopping, yelling, screaming, crying, gossiping, and of course, watching football. Of course the last point is the most important aspect of the day, so we will do our best to help you out with the Thanksgiving Day Weekend Viewing Guide.

Thursday

• 12:30PM (FOX) – Packers @ Lions – Can Favre take the Pack to 10-1 in an improbable Cinderella season?
• 4:00 PM (CBS) – Jets @ Cowboys – Local boy Chad Pennington? Not playing. Chattanooga boy Terrell Owens? Kicks ass.
• 8:00 PM (ESPN) – Southern Cal @ Arizona State – Can ASU’s bid for a Pac10 title materialize under Dennis Erickson?
• 8:15 PM (NFLN) – Colts @ Falcons – No Mike Vick, sitting Harrington for an unproven Leftwich. No chance for the Dirty Birds.

Friday

• 12:30 PM (LFS) – Egg Bowl – Ohyoyoyoyoyoyoooooooo, you’ve been CROOMED!
• 9:00 PM (ESPN2) – Boise State @ Hawaii – This game.. is WAC!

Saturday

• 12:00 PM (ESPN) – Virginia Tech @ Virginia – For the ACC Coastal Atlantic North South Um, one of the division championships
• 1:30 PM (CBS) – Tennessee @ Kentucky – Toughest Division in College Football FTW!
• 5:00 PM (CBS) – FSU @ Florida – Florida will become the greatest (# losses) team EVAR
• 7:00 PM (ESPN2) – Clemson @ South Carolina – Battle for the palm tree palmetto.
• 8:00 PM (ESPN) – Iron Bowl – $4 Million for Saban, Loss to Louisiana-Monroe, will a loss to Auburn make him one and done? Of course not, because Saban is so awesome.

And on that note, we’d like to leave you with a nice image of Thanksgiving. But us being the great Fulmer’s Belly, we didn’t want to just post a picture of just another regular turkey so instead, we bring you Miss Turkey 2007:

Mmmm, Turkey

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

edit: as an aside, it would appear as if I forgot one game involving one LSU team playing another Arkansas team, because it wouldn’t be very interesting or exciting. Whoops.

This edition of Quick Questions is brought to you by Bluegrass.  Not so much the music, but the elementary school in Knoxville.  Yes, I am a former Raider, and although at the time, mascots and school spirit meant very little to me, apparently some part of the notion stuck, with the whole making a website devoted to a college team and all.

1.  What will be the final score of the UT/UK game?

2. If you picked UK to win, why do you suck?

Tim Tebow Sucks.